Free Mumia Abu Jamal!

In this world today, when we perhaps we would need it most, there is a lack of good people. People with good morals, and people that are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. One of the few good people we have left is Mumia Abu Jamal. Mumia has been behind bars for 32 years and is still standing up for us. He is still fighting the fight. We need more people like Mumia Abu Jamal if we are going to have a chance.

Mumia Abu Jamal was born Wesley Cook on April 24^th, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When he was 14 years old he joined the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party. He got involved and worked with the party newspaper. but later left the party in 1970.

After leaving the B.P.P. he became a journalist, and even reached the height of becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.

As a journalist in Philadelphia, Mumia heard about this group of people who called themselves the Move Organization Mumia learned more and more about this group and was later really interested in the Move Organization and John Africa and he kept reporting about the Organization and their actions.

After a while Mumia found it hard to get work because some considered his stories too provacative or simply not what the establishment wanted reported. So Mumia in order to support his family started to drive a cab at night. One night Mumia was robbed, and after that he started carrying protection. One night while Mumia was driving his cab, he saw a police officer beating up his brother, and he got out of the car to see if he could calm the situation. This is when Mumia was shot, and then shot again. On that night, December 9^th 1981, police officer Daniel Faulkner lost his life.

A woman claimed that she saw Mumia shoot the officer. When other police got to the scene they did not really follow protocol, and Mumia was taken to a faraway hospital and roughed up by the police somemore before a doctor intervened and Mumia was finally treated.

The investigation that followed was a joke, the trail was strictly corrupt, and Judge Sabo was a racist. I used to think that innocent men did not go to jail, but now after studying many cases I believe many men and women in jails today are innocent.

Veronica Jones the woman that originally claimed to have seen Mumia commit the shooting, more recently changed her story and said she was pressured by police to testify against Mumia. There is even a man named Arnold R. Beverly that says and signed a sworn affidavit, stating that he shot the police officer, but that does not seem to matter to them.

Mumia was on Death Row until his death sentence was changed in 2012 to a life sentence without the possibility of parole . He is now 60 years old and has been in jail for 32 years. This man is not a violent man. No violent man would care this much about the world, He has published various books while being behind bars, and has over a thousand radio broadcasts. One can only imagine all the good he could get done if he was let out, I think he could make the world a better place. After more than three decades behind bars, they should let him out so he can return to his family immediately.

Write to Mumia:

Mumia Abu Jamal

#AM 8335

SCI Mahanoy

301 Morea Road

Frackville, PA 17932